Karl J. Friston

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Karl John Friston (born July 12, 1959 in York ) is a British neuroscientist at University College London . It deals with imaging of the brain , especially brain mapping ( Statistical Parametric Mapping and voxel-based morphometry ).

Friston studied medicine at Cambridge University and King's College London (graduated in 1983) and trained as a specialist in psychiatry ( Royal College of Psychiatrists , 1988).

Since 1998 he has been Professor at the Institute for Neurology at University College London , and since 2001 Scientific Director of the Wellcome Trust Center for Neuroimaging in London .

Friston developed one of the most important methods of analyzing brain activity in imaging procedures such as magnetoencephalography : Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM). It has been used in numerous studies to evaluate images of brain activity (activity patterns, the relationship between different areas of the cortex, etc.).

In 2003, Friston received the Golden Brain Award . In 2006 he was elected to the Royal Society , 2014 to the European Molecular Biology Organization and 2015 to the Academia Europaea . In 2011 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of York .

Since 2017, Clarivate Analytics has counted him among the favorites for a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( Clarivate Citation Laureates , formerly Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ) due to the number of his citations . According to Google Scholar , Friston has an h-index of 222 (as of September 2019). He was editor of the journal NeuroImage .

Friston is married and has three children.

literature

Iris Proff: I reduce uncertainty . (Portrait of Karl Friston). In: Brain & Mind, September 2019 issue, pp. 18–22.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2003: Friston. In: minervaberkeley.org. Minerva Foundation, accessed April 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Karl Friston. In: royalsociety.org. February 1, 2027, accessed September 21, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Identifying extreme impact in research, Clarivate Analytics uses citations to forecast Nobel Prize winners. In: clarivate.com. September 20, 2017. Retrieved September 15, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Karl Friston. In: scholar.google.de. Google Scholar , accessed September 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Friston, Karl J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friston, Karl; Friston, Karl John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British neuroscientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH York